Details of the gripping case were lost for almost 2,000 years, but have now come to light after researchers translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert.

The papyrus, named P. Cotton in recognition of Prof. Emerita Hannah Cotton-Paltiel’s discovery, contains 133 lines of Greek text and is the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert.

Researchers in Austria and Israel have translated the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert. Previously unearthed, misidentified, and then nearly forgotten, Hannah Cotton Paltiel ...

The ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John, which reportedly dates back between A.D. 250 and A.D. 350, was spotted for sale on eBay in January for $99.

A 1,900-year-old papyrus written in Greek has been deciphered for the first time by a group of Israeli and Austrian scholars. The artifact, renamed Papyrus Cotton, features the notes of a trial in ...

An ancient and rare Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John was nearly sold on eBay - with an opening bid of just $99 (£65).

Among the numerous fragments of lost Greek classics, the most noteworthy that we have hitherto deciphered are (1) a first century B. C. papyrus containing on one side an epinician ode or odes by a ...

A 1,500-year-old fragment of Greek papyrus with writing that refers to the biblical Last Supper and "manna from heaven" may be one of the oldest Christian amulets, say researchers.

The two poems came to light when the owner of an ancient papyrus, dating to the 3rd century A.D., consulted an Oxford classicist, Dirk Obbink, about the Greek writing on the tattered scrap. Dr.